'Flaw' definitions:
Definition of 'flaw'
From: WordNet
noun
An imperfection in an object or machine; "a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer" [syn: defect, fault, flaw]
noun
Defect or weakness in a person's character; "he had his flaws, but he was great nonetheless"
noun
An imperfection in a plan or theory or legal document that causes it to fail or that reduces its effectiveness
verb
Add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective [syn: flaw, blemish]
Definition of 'Flaw'
From: GCIDE
- Flaw \Flaw\ (fl[add]), n. [OE. flai, flaw flake; cf. Sw. flaga flaw, crack, breach, flake, D. vlaag gust of wind, Norw. flage, flaag, and E. flag a flat stone.]
- 1. A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase. [1913 Webster]
- This heart Shall break into a hundered thousand flaws. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute. [1913 Webster]
- Has not this also its flaws and its dark side? --South. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- And deluges of armies from the town Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration. [1913 Webster]
- Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn. --Tennyson.
- Syn: Blemish; fault; imperfection; spot; speck. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Flaw'
From: GCIDE
- Flaw \Flaw\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flawed; p. pr. & vb. n. Flawing.]
- 1. To crack; to make flaws in. [1913 Webster]
- The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To break; to violate; to make of no effect. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- France hath flawed the league. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flaw'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abysm,
- abyss,
- arroyo,
- bad habit,
- besetting sin,
- birthmark,
- black mark,
- blackhead,
- blast,
- bleb,
- blemish,
- blister,
- blot,
- blow,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- bug,
- bulla,
- canyon,
- catch,
- cavity,
- chap,
- chasm,
- check,
- chimney,
- chink,
- chip,
- cicatrix,
- cicatrize,
- cleavage,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clough,
- col,
- comedo,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crater,
- craze,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- cut,
- cwm,
- damage,
- deface,
- defacement,
- defect,
- defection,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- defile,
- deform,
- deformation,
- deformity,
- dell,
- delusion,
- deviancy,
- dike,
- discredit,
- disfiguration,
- disfigure,
- disfigurement,
- distort,
- distortion,
- ditch,
- donga,
- draw,
- drawback,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- excavation,
- failing,
- failure,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- faute,
- fissure,
- flawedness,
- flume,
- flurry,
- foible,
- fracture,
- frailty,
- freckle,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gorge,
- groove,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- gust,
- hamartia,
- harm,
- hemangioma,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- hickey,
- hole,
- hurt,
- illusion,
- imperfection,
- inadequacy,
- incision,
- infirmity,
- joint,
- keloid,
- kink,
- kloof,
- leak,
- lentigo,
- little problem,
- loophole,
- mar,
- mark,
- milium,
- misapplication,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mistake,
- moat,
- mole,
- moral flaw,
- needle scar,
- nevus,
- notch,
- nullah,
- opening,
- pass,
- passage,
- peccancy,
- perforation,
- perversion,
- pimple,
- pit,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- port-wine mark,
- port-wine stain,
- problem,
- puncture,
- pustule,
- ravine,
- rent,
- rift,
- rime,
- rip,
- ruin,
- rupture,
- scab,
- scar,
- scarify,
- scissure,
- scratch,
- scud,
- seam,
- sebaceous cyst,
- self-contradiction,
- shortcoming,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- slit,
- slot,
- snag,
- something missing,
- split,
- spoil,
- stain,
- stigmatize,
- strawberry mark,
- sty,
- taint,
- tear,
- track,
- trench,
- twist,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- valley,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- vice,
- void,
- vulnerable place,
- wadi,
- wale,
- warp,
- wart,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weak side,
- weaken,
- weakness,
- weal,
- welt,
- wen,
- whitehead,
- wind gust,
- wrong,
- wrongness